Sentence examples for moral disaster from inspiring English sources

Not every case of oppression, foreign rule, or occupation, however morally indefensible, amounts to a moral disaster in the relevant sense.

This was a moral disaster for our country, and a terror for fugitive slaves.

They saw nastiness in the self-serving defence and predicted moral disaster for the man.

During that meeting, Bachelot said, she accused the players of tarnishing France's image and called their behavior a "moral disaster".

You remove the moral obligation by arguing the other way round: it is welfare that creates moral disaster.

This episode in psychiatry is now widely acknowledged to have been a medical and moral disaster; crippling psychoses were routinely blamed on insufficiently nurturing and "schizophrenogenic" mothers.

But it has also abetted the rush to the strategic disaster of Iraq and the moral disasters of Guantánamo, Abu Ghraib, and torture.

You seem eager in the book to contrast the idealism of the American past with the moral disasters of the present.

The political and moral disasters of this administration, from the current dreadful state of American prestige abroad to the injustices perpetrated on innocent Americans erroneously suspected of terrorist ties, show that the same thing applies to the people at the top.

The Old Capitol Museum presents slavery and Indian removal the city was named after Andrew Jackson, in gratitude for his role in the latter as quandaries to be pondered rather than obvious moral disasters.

He wrote a peculiar treatise arguing that when morals degrade, disaster cannot be far behind.